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4 possible reasons you can’t sleep at night
1. The effect of sins and haram sustenance
The Prophet ﷺ said: “When a servant commits a sin, a black mark appears on his heart.” (Tirmidhi 3334).
Unlawful income, lies, backbiting, or disobedience can ruin your night’s sleep.
The Prophet ﷺ said: “When a servant commits a sin, a black mark appears on his heart.” (Tirmidhi 3334).
Unlawful income, lies, backbiting, or disobedience can ruin your night’s sleep.
2. Worry and anxiety about the world
Allah says: “Those who believe and whose hearts find rest in the remembrance of Allah. Unquestionably, in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest.” (Quran 13:28).
The opposite is also true: without dhikr, the heart remains restless.
Allah says: “Those who believe and whose hearts find rest in the remembrance of Allah. Unquestionably, in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest.” (Quran 13:28).
The opposite is also true: without dhikr, the heart remains restless.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
We should have a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, instead of having overpriced singers, who nobody wants to hear, whose music is boring, and yet who do nothing but complain.
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@realDonaldTrump
We should have a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, instead of having overpriced singers, who nobody wants to hear, whose music is boring, and yet who do nothing but complain.
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Cancel it, just like I canceled my involvement with the failing and unsafe to be in Kennedy Center, because a Highly Conflicted, Crooked Federal Judge, said that I should not be allowed to spend my time and money in order to MAKE THE CENTER GREAT AGAIN,
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actually, far greater than it ever was before! It would have also been nice to see a Republican/Democrat union bring it back to life. The Kennedy Center is broken, unsafe, and $busted, and has been for many years! Judge Cooper also stated that the highly prestigious Board ...
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Understanding Iran’s Islamic Regime - The Story of Karbala
There is an element in the psychology of the Islamic Republic of Iran that the West, including the USA Administration, seems not to understand, and
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There is an element in the psychology of the Islamic Republic of Iran that the West, including the USA Administration, seems not to understand, and
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and that is the way Shi’i Twelver ideology sees the story of Karbala.
Karbala was the site of war between Husayn ibn Ali (the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad) and his small band of followers who made a final stand against the forces of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph.
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Karbala was the site of war between Husayn ibn Ali (the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad) and his small band of followers who made a final stand against the forces of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph.
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This was a struggle over authority within Islam. The followers of Husayn became the Shi’i.
But what is important about Karbala, is that, though the Shi’i side was defeated completely, their followers claimed a victory, a moral victory,
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But what is important about Karbala, is that, though the Shi’i side was defeated completely, their followers claimed a victory, a moral victory,
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I find this interesting about international politics
Cuba. - Hates and responds to anyone who opposes it, and provides many benefits to those in charge of the political system and its military, encourages terrorist movements and
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Cuba. - Hates and responds to anyone who opposes it, and provides many benefits to those in charge of the political system and its military, encourages terrorist movements and
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provides them with shelter, but except for the United States, the rest of the world continues to treat the Cuban regime as an okay one. No condemnation. There is no criticism. There is no effort to condemn or boycott or even judge.
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Dictators who abuse their citizens if they declare themselves "Socialists"are fine in the eyes of the UN and the International community without judgment. (Perceived as a problem only by the US)
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When multi-agent LLM systems debate, they are not just sharing ideas. They are implicitly running a dynamic routing algorithm.
The debate itself acts as a Mixture of Experts (MoE) gatekeeper, shifting influence based on agent confidence. 🧵
When multi-agent LLM systems debate, they are not just sharing ideas. They are implicitly running a dynamic routing algorithm.
The debate itself acts as a Mixture of Experts (MoE) gatekeeper, shifting influence based on agent confidence. 🧵
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In "Multi-Agent Systems are Mixtures of Experts: Who Becomes an Influencer?", Franka Bause, Jonas Niederle, Martin Pawelczyk, and Rebekka Burkholz model agent debates using social opinion dynamics.
Here is how conversational routing actually works.
In "Multi-Agent Systems are Mixtures of Experts: Who Becomes an Influencer?", Franka Bause, Jonas Niederle, Martin Pawelczyk, and Rebekka Burkholz model agent debates using social opinion dynamics.
Here is how conversational routing actually works.
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The authors map LLM debates to the Friedkin-Johnsen (FJ) model of opinion dynamics.
An agent's belief update is a balance of:
• Stubbornness (attachment to its original answer)
• Peer influence (openness to other agents)
This is a task-adaptive MoE in disguise.
The authors map LLM debates to the Friedkin-Johnsen (FJ) model of opinion dynamics.
An agent's belief update is a balance of:
• Stubbornness (attachment to its original answer)
• Peer influence (openness to other agents)
This is a task-adaptive MoE in disguise.
Every American student learns the same story about Standard Oil:
Rockefeller as the villain of unregulated capitalism, Standard Oil as proof that free markets inevitably produce monopolies that crush consumers.
A historian went to the primary records and found the opposite. 🧵
Rockefeller as the villain of unregulated capitalism, Standard Oil as proof that free markets inevitably produce monopolies that crush consumers.
A historian went to the primary records and found the opposite. 🧵
In "The Myth of the Robber Barons," Burton Folsom builds the Standard Oil case around one number: between 1870 and 1911, the price of kerosene fell from 26 cents a gallon to under 8 cents. Standard Oil dominated the kerosene market and the price to consumers fell by roughly 70 percent over those forty years.
A predatory monopolist raises prices once it owns the market. Rockefeller kept cutting them.
A predatory monopolist raises prices once it owns the market. Rockefeller kept cutting them.
How did he cut prices that aggressively?
Cleaner refining processes that captured byproducts other refiners threw away. Pipelines instead of rail when rail was overpriced. Less waste at every stage of production.
By the early 1880s, Standard could refine a barrel of oil for roughly half the cost of its rivals.
Cleaner refining processes that captured byproducts other refiners threw away. Pipelines instead of rail when rail was overpriced. Less waste at every stage of production.
By the early 1880s, Standard could refine a barrel of oil for roughly half the cost of its rivals.
In the US, Jew Hate never disappeared - its been less than 50 years since Jews were not welcome at Country Clubs, could not purchase homes in certain neighborhoods, had to build their own hospitals. It just wasn't newsworthy.
Christian holidays were embedded into public school culture, Christmas music dominated concerts, school spaces were decorated, and Jewish students often felt tokenized or pressured to participate.
Jewish families protested this as early as 1906, when tens of thousands of Jewish parents kept their children home to avoid mandatory Christmas programs
1/17 No, see now that is where you are off just a bit. I do not need anger management what I need is a group of people who go around snatching people off the street like you and putting you all in a room where you are all DE-brainwashed and given a vaccine for TBS, which is short
2/17 for Trumpian Brain Shits, to loosen the grip that Trump's lies have on you people. At the very top of Page 3, section iii of the Iran Nuclear Deal, Iran SPECIFICALLY put in THESE words:
iii. "Iran explicitly reaffirms and commits that under no circumstances will Iran ever
iii. "Iran explicitly reaffirms and commits that under no circumstances will Iran ever
3/17 seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons".
In the original Iran Nuclear Deal, Iran had EXPLICITLY stated it would NOT build ANY nuclear bombs...PERIOD. And we would STILL have a nuclear free Iran if YOUR boss hadn't FUCKED it all up! He has NO damn business being in the
In the original Iran Nuclear Deal, Iran had EXPLICITLY stated it would NOT build ANY nuclear bombs...PERIOD. And we would STILL have a nuclear free Iran if YOUR boss hadn't FUCKED it all up! He has NO damn business being in the
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Yesterday, AI-related stocks hit a high as a percentage of the S&P 500.
The AI influence on the stock market has never been larger.
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Yesterday, AI-related stocks hit a high as a percentage of the S&P 500.
The AI influence on the stock market has never been larger.
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What are the AI-Stocks?
I use the list that J.P. Morgan's Michael Cemblast made last fall.
Here is a table with its details.
What are the AI-Stocks?
I use the list that J.P. Morgan's Michael Cemblast made last fall.
Here is a table with its details.
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Note that the list above does NOT include SpaceX (which has Xai, or Grok), Anthropic, and OpenAI. SpaceX's IPO is expected around June 12.
So, when will they be included in the S&P 500, allowing AI to account for over 50% of the S&P 500?
Last week, S&P proposed changing its rules so that mega-cap IPOs could become eligible for S&P 500 inclusion after six months, rather than the usual one-year seasoning period.
The proposal would also relax some standard hurdles for these companies, including minimum public float and profitability requirements.
But S&P emphasized that eligibility does not mean automatic inclusion—the Index Committee would still make the final decision.
Note that the list above does NOT include SpaceX (which has Xai, or Grok), Anthropic, and OpenAI. SpaceX's IPO is expected around June 12.
So, when will they be included in the S&P 500, allowing AI to account for over 50% of the S&P 500?
Last week, S&P proposed changing its rules so that mega-cap IPOs could become eligible for S&P 500 inclusion after six months, rather than the usual one-year seasoning period.
The proposal would also relax some standard hurdles for these companies, including minimum public float and profitability requirements.
But S&P emphasized that eligibility does not mean automatic inclusion—the Index Committee would still make the final decision.
I have twelve years of my own blood work. Seven panels. Every result, every flag, in the years before the heart attack that nearly killed me at 52.
My doctor circled one number every single time. LDL cholesterol.
He never said a word about the marker flagged four times on the same pages.
In 1976 a doctor named Broda Barnes called that marker the riddle of heart attacks. Mine was screaming. Nobody was listening.
Let me show you what they saw, what they missed, and what almost killed me.
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My doctor circled one number every single time. LDL cholesterol.
He never said a word about the marker flagged four times on the same pages.
In 1976 a doctor named Broda Barnes called that marker the riddle of heart attacks. Mine was screaming. Nobody was listening.
Let me show you what they saw, what they missed, and what almost killed me.
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October 2007. I am 39. A former professional tennis player eating exactly what I was told was healthy. Pasta. Gatorade. Whole grains. Low fat everything.
Total cholesterol: 186. Normal.
Triglycerides: 60. Excellent.
HDL: 59. Good.
LDL: 115. Flagged HIGH.
My doctor circled the LDL. He did not mention one other thing on the page.
Total cholesterol: 186. Normal.
Triglycerides: 60. Excellent.
HDL: 59. Good.
LDL: 115. Flagged HIGH.
My doctor circled the LDL. He did not mention one other thing on the page.
Every panel after that told the same story.
August 2008: LDL 122. High.
October 2008: LDL 104. High.
April 2009: LDL 109. High.
September 2009: LDL 111. High.
2012: LDL 111. High.
2013: LDL 102. High.
Seven panels. Seven high flags. A statin recommended at every visit. I refused every time.
August 2008: LDL 122. High.
October 2008: LDL 104. High.
April 2009: LDL 109. High.
September 2009: LDL 111. High.
2012: LDL 111. High.
2013: LDL 102. High.
Seven panels. Seven high flags. A statin recommended at every visit. I refused every time.
🧵 Hasan Piker recently revealed that David Adler of Progressive International is his “comrade.”
Adler is an American political economist and organizer from Los Angeles. Progressive International lists him as a General Coordinator, and its Cabinet runs development, planning, and staffing. He is the organizer tied to the network behind the Cuba convoy story.
The Nuestra América Convoy framed its trip as humanitarian aid to Cuba: medicine, food, supplies, solar equipment, and opposition to United States sanctions. Fox reports that the Treasury sanctions office is looking at the trip. CODEPINK has denied wrongdoing and disputed parts of that report.
The record has to be read through the organizations behind the convoy, not through the influencers attached to it.
Adler is an American political economist and organizer from Los Angeles. Progressive International lists him as a General Coordinator, and its Cabinet runs development, planning, and staffing. He is the organizer tied to the network behind the Cuba convoy story.
The Nuestra América Convoy framed its trip as humanitarian aid to Cuba: medicine, food, supplies, solar equipment, and opposition to United States sanctions. Fox reports that the Treasury sanctions office is looking at the trip. CODEPINK has denied wrongdoing and disputed parts of that report.
The record has to be read through the organizations behind the convoy, not through the influencers attached to it.
Adler comes from the United States political and academic world: Los Angeles, Brown, Oxford, Sanders foreign-policy circles, and the policy orbit around Yanis Varoufakis and DiEM25.
Progressive International works on a different scale. It presents itself as a transnational political network connecting parties, unions, movements, activists, nonprofit groups, media projects, policy shops, and campaigns across borders.
Adler gives the network an American organizer with roots in United States progressive politics.
Progressive International gives that work an international structure.
His public record runs through anti-sanctions politics, Global South economic policy, Cuba solidarity, Palestine legal advocacy, and cross-border campaign infrastructure.
David Adler isn’t just casually connected to Cuba’s leader Miguel Díaz-Canel, they’ve met, and Díaz-Canel even publicly pushed for Adler’s release after the Gaza flotilla detention.
Progressive International works on a different scale. It presents itself as a transnational political network connecting parties, unions, movements, activists, nonprofit groups, media projects, policy shops, and campaigns across borders.
Adler gives the network an American organizer with roots in United States progressive politics.
Progressive International gives that work an international structure.
His public record runs through anti-sanctions politics, Global South economic policy, Cuba solidarity, Palestine legal advocacy, and cross-border campaign infrastructure.
David Adler isn’t just casually connected to Cuba’s leader Miguel Díaz-Canel, they’ve met, and Díaz-Canel even publicly pushed for Adler’s release after the Gaza flotilla detention.
Progressive International has a Council, Cabinet, Secretariat, member organizations, campaign pages, media output, and policy work.
The Council sets direction.
The Cabinet handles development, planning, and staffing.
The Secretariat handles coordination and member support.
This structure lets a campaign move through separate groups without one legal owner.
One group can collect medical supplies. Another can organize delegates. Another can publish the story. Another can write the legal frame. Another can place the whole thing under an international political banner.
Read the Cuba convoy this way: divided roles, shared banner, international framing.
Hasan gave the story visibility because he has an audience.
CODEPINK gave it a familiar antiwar face.
Progressive International gave it the larger structure.
The Council sets direction.
The Cabinet handles development, planning, and staffing.
The Secretariat handles coordination and member support.
This structure lets a campaign move through separate groups without one legal owner.
One group can collect medical supplies. Another can organize delegates. Another can publish the story. Another can write the legal frame. Another can place the whole thing under an international political banner.
Read the Cuba convoy this way: divided roles, shared banner, international framing.
Hasan gave the story visibility because he has an audience.
CODEPINK gave it a familiar antiwar face.
Progressive International gave it the larger structure.
Whenever the "spanking" conversation goes viral, I find myself angry all over again at how many Christian parents have been told to administer physical violence during the very formative years of infancy, toddlerhood & preschool years.
Robs families of so much. 🧵
Robs families of so much. 🧵
Take half a minute to observe children at this age & you will see their vulnerability, their constant checking in w/caregivers as they make sense of the world around them, the slow pace at which they operate.
Yet in moments of frustration adults assign them malicious motives. +
Yet in moments of frustration adults assign them malicious motives. +
Because of parental inconvenience & overwhelm, adults who don't know what to do see a child's immaturity and vulnerability, or fail to rise to the maturity required of *parents,* and think: danger! Rebellion! Willfulness!
And then they lash out. +
And then they lash out. +
